kamiel [at] creativechoice.org

Berlin and getting organized. A short reflection today, about things. I sing the material blues. How do you relate to the things you possess? I guess it is something positive, the fact that you are the owner? How can it not be positive, that is the question. And, as you can guess, I think I have an answer to that. You know I have this storage room in Berlin, cramped with things, absolutely totally full. I have to put something on the street in order to close the door. It can be such a burden to possess things. So why not throw them away? Because certain people might then think badly of you. Because you don’t want the things destroyed in a garbage oven. Because you could use them later. Ask some friends if they want to have or borrow them. Nobody home. It seems ridiculous in a time of crisis where everybody seems to be severely hit by downward trends and tumbling curves. But can you see what it is? I am sort of training not to attach too much to matter. There are other things much more relevant in life. The positive associations that I attach to material possession that I have as an average citizen can be annulled by the negative associations I am creating by dealing with the stuff in that damn storage room over and over again. I pay for them to be my possession but I am forgetting about them. So I’d like to compose some kind of Weild material blues that could go as an entremets to a Brecht play.